On 12 April 2014 20:42, William "Chops" Westfield wrote: > > > I have only so much life left. > > Not to be morbid, but has anyone come up with great ideas for how their > estate can get rid of their collected "treasure" after they die? > > Presumably there are organizations to whom such a trove would be at least > "interesting", but I'm not sure any of them have the time to do examinati= on > and sorting, or what sort of arrangements could/should be made. "Such an= d > such > to the computer museum, such and such to the hackerspace, and the rest to > anyone > that wants it (via the hackerspace?)" ? The following may serve as a useful catalyst for others. Talking to a video camera can be an easy way of doing this - as long as the file is both findable and known to need finding by your survivors. _______________________________ In my overdue to be updated will I mention certain treasures and people specifically. I also have a document named IFISHOUL.DOC The name gives an idea when it was started before. ( " ... corner of a foreign field that is forever ...") This is a semi comprehensive list of everything I can think of and gets updated very very seldom. (Older versions have the last modify date added to the file name). A dated printed version resides in our "wills ..." folder. This notionally covers $ / asset locations (credit and debit), companies who might wish to know I was dead, who to direct what sort of stuff towards= .. Importantly the start says what NOT to do. Do not let random people access the computer system, do ask people on short list to do xxx actions etc. The aim of course is to try to ensure data continuity long enough tp decide what is needed and where it is. As noted, this is all past past due time for an update. Good thought. Looks: Yes. Woefully out of date: Passwords? I have a means of managing these which I don't feel the need to tell the GCSB (NSA wannabe) about here. My wife may be able to follow how it works :-). (Hmmm two person car/plane / ... fatality could be interesting. ____________________________________________ *DON'T LET ANYONE TOUCH MY COMPUTER SYSTEMS UNTIL YOU HAVE READ THIS AND ACTIONED IT:* *Have a computer expert investigate the actual files - you don't want to lose them at this stage. * *Rod would do. * *Philip would also be competent.* *Anyone competent, mature and able to be methodical and follow instructions without question. Avoid anyone liable to be impulsive or dismissive.* *Printing out EVERYTHING you find which may be even slightly pertinent would probably be a good idea. You can then out it in a folder to look at at a later date at leisure and not worry about what happens to the stored data. This is NOT typical Rusl hoarding syndrome - there are some useful things on the PC and it would be very poor economy for you to delete files now and find that they were useful to you later. * *It is probably a good idea to not allow any other use of the computer until you are totally satisfied that you have extracted full value from it. A crash due to a virus or errant game would be a shame if you did not have all the information off it. * [[Entries xxx xxx xxx below were added when I pasted this to replace some specific subject lines. ]] and *1. INVESTMENTS* *2. LIFE INSURANCE* *3. HOUSE CONTENTS INSURANCE* *4. HOUSE INSURANCE* *5. WILLS* *6 LAST MESSAGES* *7 BUSINESS ACCOUNTS* *8 IMPORTANT PAPERS* *9 Blank at this stage.* *10. INFORMATION* *11 xxx xxx xxx * *12 **xxx xxx xxx * *13 **xxx xxx xxx * *14 INVOICES* *15 **xxx xxx xxx * *16 **xxx xxx xxx * *17 * *18* *19 Unimportant papers **J* *20 DISPOSAL OF MESS, PARTS AND EQUIPMENT * *LAST MESSAGES* *PERSONAL DESIRES / FUNERAL ETC* --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .